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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Soul Mates And Twin Spirits What Are They Really?

Many of us have had a distinctive experience of having met someone for
the first time, someone with whom we feel we are incontrovertibly
connected deep within our souls. We may believe this new person is our
soul mate or our twin soul. But what are our soul mates or twin spirits
really? Can we truly be linked to another spirit and destined to meet
one another in many different incarnations? Were we somehow made for one
another by a divine creator who provides for all of us someone special
with whom we may share our lives?

Like many spiritual beliefs, the concepts of twin spirits or soul mates
are predicated upon deep spiritual experiences for which there are
really no adequate words. We use metaphors to try to describe such
experiences until the experiences become so commonplace that new words
evolve to more accurately describe our experiences or the metaphors
stick like glue and we come to accept the metaphor as a literal
description when in fact it may still fall short of being a valid
description of our experience.
While it is undeniably true that many of us have experiences in which we
recognize another soul with whom we are intimately connected in some
inexplicable way, perhaps we should examine the metaphors we use to
describe these experiences to shed some light on what may really be
going on. Metaphors are used to apply past experiences which we
understand to new experiences which we have no proper concepts for.
Without clearly understood concepts we can have no words which
accurately describe our new experiences which is why we must resort to
metaphors. But a metaphor is only an approximate likeness between two
experiences which will usually accurately describe our familiar
experience but which will provide only a reasonably close ‘as-if’
description of our new experience.

So when we meet someone with whom we feel we share a common past or
destiny we search for a way to explain this feeling and our culture has
developed the concepts of soul mates and twin spirits to accommodate our
need for words to describe how we feel.

The metaphors of soul mates and twin spirits come from our real
experiences with having partners in life, our mates, or having known
someone with a twin, a biological condition. Both indicate a degree of
relatedness that is above and beyond the way we appear to be related to
most other people in our lives and that is the essence of what we are
trying to express when we find someone with whom we communicate on a
very deep level of our souls.

Neither marriage nor twins may have any real meaning in regard to our
spirits, so the popular concepts of soul mates and twin spirits may be
off the mark in the context of the spiritual reality of our souls. We
may have wonderful people in our lives with whom we are deeply connected
whom we may have a great affinity for in the context of our spiritual
lives beyond the limits of our incarnations, but they may not be our
twins or mates, but something other for which we have not yet found
adequate words to accurately describe these very special relationships.

Marriage is a societal convention, mates are temporary phenomena, the
lives of our souls in the spirit world may have vastly different social
conventions and we may have many mates all of whom are special to us
each in their own way but none of whom we may be mated to or married to
in any sense that is either permanent or exclusive of someone else.

Likewise, this special person with whom we share an incredibly intimate
bond may not be related to us in the manner of a twin. Our spirits seem
unlikely to have grown from a single egg and our spirits all share the
same womb from which they were born so we cannot be twins in the
fraternal sense in any manner that may be considered special since in
the ultimate sense we must then all be twins to one another including
every other spirit in creation.

However, there are considerations which may make the concepts of soul
mates and spiritual twins valid metaphors for our experiences of being
thoroughly connected with another person’s soul.

Perhaps our souls have somehow divided themselves and our souls have
thereby created an independent twin or a soul mate. This is one
explanation I can offer which would make soul mates or twin spirits a
reasonably valid metaphor for the experience of meeting a very special
person. When I examine the beginning of creation at the time our souls
are created I do not see any of us in the roles of twins or mates. So if
soul mates or twin spirits truly exist then perhaps they must come much
later. If they did come later then that would make them a different
order of being from what I would call our primary souls; those infinite
sparks cast forth in the first moment of creation. Each of our primary
souls is like a hologram such that every one of us contains every one of
us within ourselves. If we were to become divided and become two
separate specially related souls we might then be twin spirits, but we
would no longer be the primary soul from which we originally came, even
though each of the souls we have become has its origin in a pre-existing
undivided state of our soul.

Another possibility would be that twin spirits or soul mates may simply
have shared many experiences together over many different incarnations
or have always remained close to one another throughout most of their
experiences in the spiritual world of our souls.

Soul mates are sometimes described as being paired opposites, however
opposites is a weak term to describe this state of connectedness since
it appears to preclude areas where two 'soul mates' may be very much
alike.
The philosophy of twin spirits or soul mates is most often predicated
upon a belief that god provided for every one of us a perfect mate. But
then why is finding that perfect mate so difficult? Has god created our
perfect mate only to challenge us to find them? I doubt that it is like
that, god does not seem perverse to me.

I think we all began in an identical state or condition and that we have
then evolved into what we will become. I think the concept of twin
spirits or soul mates is too limiting in regard to the potential scope
of our love, and that we are meant to love everyone and are not meant to
cling to only one special soul throughout eternity.

Of course I may be mistaken, these are only my thoughts of the moment
and my position may change as I consider these questions more carefully
over time.

One issue I have with the concepts of soul mates and spiritual twins is
that they are predicated upon the cognitive process of duality and
ultimately duality is an illusion imposed upon us by our limited
abilities to think clearly. Again, I may be mistaken, but I do not think
that duality applies to who we are as spirits in the most primal sense
of our being. Duality appears to be only a tool for picking apart our
experiences so that our conscious minds can discover useful terms with
which to describe our experiences.

Regardless of the validity of the metaphors we use to describe the sweet
experiences we have of meeting someone with whom we may feel we have
shared eternity, many of us most definitely connect in a very unique and
intimate manner with some very special person in our lives. Thos people
with whom we click in this extraordinary manner often become pivotal
people in transforming our lives for the better so that we help one
another to grow and to evolve as more loving, nurturing and
compassionate human beings.

If you are lucky enough to believe you have found your soul mate or a
spiritual twin you then should go for broke. The person whom you have
found may indeed reflect that belief in your deep union and prove to be a
loving partner or a deeply cherished friend well worth knowing and
loving and keeping close to you in your present incarnation on earth.

BIO: Fledgling author Greg Gourdian has
worked with the general public as a psychic reader for a little over
four years from 1981 to 1986. Much of his written work is channeled,
although he will admit that he has no idea who many of the sources for
his channeled work may be. He has many strange tales to tell regarding
his spiritual journey and he attempts to tell his tales in a humorous or
entertaining manner. While not an accredited teacher, Greg has taught
classes in psychology, sociology, metaphysics and parapsychology.